From healthmaps@attbi.com Sun Jan 5 07:24:43 2003 Received: from mxu5.u.washington.edu (mxu5.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.164]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h05FOgCK012512 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 07:24:42 -0800 Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mxu5.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h05FOeAo032624 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 07:24:41 -0800 Received: from Harriet (12-229-18-75.client.attbi.com[12.229.18.75]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <20030105152440001000bc1me>; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:24:40 +0000 From: "Richard Hoskins" To: "WAPHGIS" Subject: WAPHGIS: Mapping and community organizing in PA Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 07:24:39 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3DFE1FEF.5000807@u.washington.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Useful for health applications too. See below Dick Hoskins Friends: Thought you might find this news item of interest. MAPPING AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporation (PACDC) distributed Compaq iPAQ Pocket PCs to its member Community Development Corporations (CDCs) to assist them in creating neighborhood inventories of their service areas by standardizing data collection and establishing a baseline for measuring neighborhood change over time. According to PACDC's report, the exercise "has provided CDCs with valuable knowledge in their strategic planning, community outreach efforts and development of policy initiatives." The handhelds were used by CDCs to collect information on urban land vacancies and allowed volunteers with little computer experience to survey community members to establish buy-in for their projects, among other endeavors. [SOURCE: Community Technology Review, AUTHOR: Eric F. Hoffman] (http://www.comtechreview.org/article_body_fw02.asp?article_ID=129) -- Regards, Laura Larsson Digital Asset Manager Clinical Faculty Health Services, Box 357660 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 larsson@u.washington.edu Listowner: PHNUTR-L, PHSW, PHNURSES, PNWHEALTH, HSR-L, BIRTH23MH, PH-INFO PDA Owner: HandEra 330, iPaq 3850 PH Weblog: http://depts.washington.edu/hswork/phblog/phblog.html PDAs for PHPs Website (under development) "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. " Alvin Toffler .